Drive -WD Black 640gb
http://www.newegg.co...aviar black 640
Mobo-Gigabyte GA-MA78LM-S2H
http://www.newegg.co...k=GA-MA78LM-S2H
Bios was set to boot drives as Natural IDE and os installed on the drive while it was in IDE interface. Installed programs, used computer, ran games etc etc without a problem. Realized it, ran BIOS and changed Sata drives to AHCI. Couldn't boot os, naturally. No problem for me to fresh install, still a new comp.
Booted os cd and tried to install os, but it couldn't detect any drives. Maybe cuz the drive was previously in IDE mode. Confused on what to do next. So I made BIOS run sata in natural IDE and deleted partion through os cd boot. Didn't install os though. Thought, problem solved, OEM drives come unpartioned anyways right? So changed Sata to AHCI again and tried to run os install. Once again, could not detect drives and blue screened. Confused again.
Took drive unpartioned drive, made it a slave in old dell computer, ran BIOS to make it run in SATA. After booting and everest diagnostics, saw that my dell hdd was SATA while the new drive was still in IDE. Went start->my computer->manage and ran disk management. Formatted, deleted partion, created partion etc etc. HDD was recognized by os and working but still, in IDE mode.
How to make this drive run in SATA interface?? I want to make it my primary drive for my new rig but I can't seem to fresh install an os on it while SATA is in AHCI in bios. Have ran chkdsk and hdd diagnostics programs and it is 100% fine and working. It worked too, when I was running my os with sata set to natural ide. Can something possibly be wrong with the mobo Sata controllers or something? The mobo is sata compatible and I had personally plugged in the hdd to sata ports.